In order to perform server maintenance and upgrades, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time on Friday, November 10th, 2023.
We plan to notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use via a News item on gifttutoring.org
The extended GIFT Cloud server maintenance for Tuesday, October 3 through Thursday, October 5, 2023 has been successfully completed. Thank you to the GIFT community for your patience during this downtime, and users can login to cloud.gifttutoring.org and resume normal activities.
-Your GIFT Team
As a reminder: In order to perform server maintenance and upgrades, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time this week.
It is anticipated that cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for a duration of three full days this week: Tuesday, October 3rd, Wednesday, October 4th, and Thursday, October 5th, 2023.
We plan to notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use via a News item on gifttutoring.org.
Additionally, there may be occasional downtime of the main gifttutoring.org website this week.
-Your GIFT Team
The Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 11 – Professional Career Education Book is now published and available for download! The book is free, and is available in the documents tab of gifttutoring.org or through this link: https://gifttutoring.org/documents/167
The Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) series explores the impact of ITS design on education and training. Specifically, this book volume includes discussion of applications for Professional Career Education. The types of training that occurs in professional education tend to be more applied, and experiential than in traditional ITSs. This book highlights general approaches and techniques that can be beneficial to developing ITSs for professional career education. Additionally, the book includes chapters with specific use cases where ITSs have been implemented in diverse domains including medical, teaching, commercial pilot, and manufacturing training.
Citation: Sinatra, A.M., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Townsend, L.N. and Rus, V. (Eds.). (2023). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 11 - Professional Career Education. Orlando, FL: US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command - Soldier Center. ISBN 978-0-9977258-5-8. Available at: https://gifttutoring.org/documents/167
In order to perform server maintenance and upgrades, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time on the week of October 2nd, 2023.
It is anticipated that cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for a duration of three full days: Tuesday, October 3rd, Wednesday, October 4th, and Thursday, October 5th, 2023.
We plan to notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use via a News item on gifttutoring.org.
Additionally, there may be occasional downtime of the main gifttutoring.org website the week of October 2nd.
-Your GIFT Team
The extended GIFT Cloud server maintenance for Friday, July 14 2023 has been successfully completed. Thank you to the GIFT community for your patience during this downtime, and users can login to cloud.gifttutoring.org and resume normal activities.
In order to perform additional server maintenance and upgrades, cloud.gifttutoring.org will be down for an extended time tomorrow morning (Friday, July 14th, 2023) during regularly scheduled maintenance. The current estimated downtime is from 8:00 AM EST - 11:00 AM EST, and we will notify the community when servers are back online and ready for use.
-Your GIFT Team
We are happy to announce that the Proceedings of the 11th Annual GIFT Users Symposium (GIFTSym11) are now published and available for download for free under the GIFTtutoring.org documents tab, and at: https://gifttutoring.org/documents/165
Thank you to all of our GIFTSym11 presenters and to all of our participants (both in-person and virtual)!
DRAFT AGENDA
We are excited to be hosting a FULL-DAY workshop at the upcoming International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED; https://www.aied2023.org/).
We've put an excellent program together and we're eager to share the Agenda with the broader community (visit the News link to access the attachment). We'll have a nice mix of invited talks, paper presentations and demonstrations. The workshop is being run as a HYRBID event with the ability to participate remotely. If the topic and agenda is of interest, there's still time to get registered! Visit the conference site for more information.
We're also pleased to announce that Dr. Benjamin Nye (USC-Institute for Creative Technologies) will be providing our opening keynote! We look forward to Dr. Nye kicking off the event with a though provoking presentation.
TITLE: AI Generated Scenarios for Competency Building: (How) can it work?
DESCRIPTION: Imagine creating a 3D training scenario spanning hundreds of square miles, just from a verbal description and a list of ideal versus prerequisite competencies for training. Rather than a far-off future, even today's generative AI models show the potential to generate a playable force-on-force scenario with the right pipelines and corpora. However, will it be any good? Perhaps more importantly: how can we even tell if they are any good? In this talk, we discuss both the easy part (generating a scenario) and the hard part (evaluating if that scenario supports deliberate practice toward a competency). Based on this theme, we also note potential solutions such as simulated agents, implications of strength-based assessments, and the potential for learning artifacts which bring products simulations into live practice.
If you have any questions, please contact the Workshop Chairs directly:
Benjamin Goldberg; benjamin.s.goldberg.civ@army.mil
Robby Robson; robby.robson@eduworks.com
GIFTSym11 starts tomorrow, Wednesday, May 10th, 2023!
GIFTSym11 is two days: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 from 9:00am - 4:00pm Eastern, and Thursday, May 11th, 2023 from 9:00am – 2:45pm Eastern.
The final schedule can be downloaded from this GIFT news item: https://gifttutoring.org/news/168
For those attending GIFTSym11 in-person, the location information is: Partnership 3, Room 321A/B (third floor), 3039 Technology Parkway, Orlando, FL 32826.
For those who are attending virtually, the GIFTSym11 Microsoft Teams Links are included below.
Please note there are different Microsoft Teams links for each day. Also, please join on the web version of Microsoft Teams, even if you have the app installed.
GIFTSYM11 DAY 1: https://dod.teams.microsoft.us/l/meetup-join/19%3adod%3ameeting_498b7043fda844a48ce9a78f0e0345fa%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22fae6d70f-954b-4811-92b6-0530d6f84c43%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222c58c790-f754-4a95-b481-c181852500d5%22%7d
GIFTSYM11 DAY 2: https://dod.teams.microsoft.us/l/meetup-join/19%3adod%3ameeting_829c2938a5314fa29f2e145f849f628b%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22fae6d70f-954b-4811-92b6-0530d6f84c43%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222c58c790-f754-4a95-b481-c181852500d5%22%7d
If you encounter technical difficulties joining the Teams meeting, please email anne.m.sinatra.civ@army.mil, alutz@dignitastechnologies.com, and lisa.n.townsend2.civ@army.mil
The event is FREE OF CHARGE, but we do request you register at the following link: https://cloud.gifttutoring.org/dashboard/?eid=793d40cb-e13c-497c-af1e-67777bad0fe8
We look forward to an excellent event!
-Your GIFTSYM11 Program Committee